Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media report them inadequately. We blog here because our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, New York, Madrid, London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening and why. This ongoing war is killing us.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

15-Jul-15: From the Shalit deal to the Iran deal

Shalit deal October 2011: More than a thousand imprisoned, convicted
and unrepentant terrorists freed by decision of Netanyahu
government [Image Source]

Today, it is abundantly clear that Prime Minister
Netanyahu has failed big-time. He remains, undoubtedly, a political
ace. But his futile fight against a soft agreement with Iran — the cause
he pursued most indefatigably of all — leaves him a defeated man.

Where did he go wrong?

Consider the take of Avigdor Liberman, the person who “has worked
more closely than any other Israeli politician, and for longer, with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu [in a] working relationship which began in the late 1980s.”

The problem is that Bibi is only battling to survive. The
only thing that interests him is his political survival… He’d say he has to
survive in order to prevent Iran from attaining the bomb? On Iran too, it’s all
talk. It’s all talk. Kalam fadi. Piste meisis. Hakol diburim. Parole parole.
Just talk.

Iran has stopped taking us seriously. It’s a
case of the dog that barks and barks: A dog that barks doesn’t bite.
As I always say, if you want to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.

Interviewer: Israel missed the moment to intervene?

It’s our obligation to prevent Iran from (attaining) nuclear
weapons. It’s possible (to achieve this). But for real efforts, real desire to
stop Iran, you need a completely other leadership. It’s not enough to give a
speech in Washington or to blame the world. If someone is not
capable of facing up to Hamas and finishing the
story of Hamas, what, is he really capable of facing up to
Iran?

Interviewer: This prime minister will not act to stop
Iran?

It’s clear that he doesn’t have any intention to do what we
need to do to prevent Iran from (attaining) nuclear capabilities. It’s only,
you know, public disputes. Another interview. Another interview.

Interviewer: He’s too scared?

I don’t know. I’m not getting into his personality. It is
truly our obligation to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons. It can be
done. But not the way we’re going.

Here is what we wrote some months ago (and
before the Liberman interview) about the Shalit Deal and its impact on
Netanyahu’s campaign against a deal with Iran:

As we are all aware, Mr. Netanyahu has sought long and hard
to galvanize the major powers against a nuclear Iran.

There was his controversial speech to the U.S. Congress in
which he warned that Iran and ISIS are competing for what he termed “the
crown of militant Islam”.“In this deadly game of thrones,” he
said “there is no place for America or Israel.”

And in September 2014, after ISIS catapulted itself onto the
world’s stage with its string of videotaped beheadings, Netanyahu asserted to
the UN General Assembly that ISIS and Hamas “are
branches of the same poisonous tree.”When French Jews were massacred earlier this year, Netanyahu
was quick to march against terrorism in the streets of Paris along with other
world leaders.

“They bomb churches in Iraq; they slaughter tourists in Bali;
they rocket civilians from Gaza; and strive to build nuclear weapons in Iran…
we have to fight these enemies of our common civilization,” he tweeted at
the time.

In mid-December, when a self-styled Iranian sheikh held
people hostage in a Sydney café for hours and killed three of them, Netanyahu said “Israel
and Australia face the same scourge of ruthless Islamist terrorism which knows
no geographic bounds and targets innocent civilians indiscriminately.”

Yet despite these efforts, upon the signing of a framework
agreement between Iran and the P5+1, it became clear that Netanyahu’s travels,
speeches, tweets and interviews had failed.

Quite possibly, Mr. Netanyahu’s credibility is to
blame.

He is, after all, the only world leader to have ever freed
hundreds of convicted terrorists. This fact will forever blemish his record.

While he strove valiantly, despite it, to convince everyone
of his commitment to fighting terrorism, he faced an uphill battle.

On which
planet does the “general” of the global war on terror present the
enemy — as he did — with a huge cadre of devoted, experienced
soldiers?

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Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media often report them inadequately. Our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, in New York, in Madrid, in London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening. This ongoing war is killing us.